Date: October 24, 1972

Time: 12:57 pm – 1:24 pm

Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson and Manolo Sanchez.

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:24 pm.

Veterans

-Bill signing ceremony, October 24, 1972

-The President’s commitment to peace and honor

-The American Legion’s auxiliary publication

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Veterans benefits bill

-Education

Foreign affairs

Campaign issues

-The President’s surrogates

-Elliot L. Richardson

-Donald H. Rumsfeld

-Chicago

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s speech, October 23, 1972

-Draft dodgers, amnesty

-Military spending cuts

-World War II

-George S. McGovern’s vacillation

-McGovern’s campaign practices

-1968

-Response to McGovern’s forthcoming speech about

morality

-Questions

-Demonstrations

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time after 12:57 pm.

-Demonstrations

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-Double standard

-Charges against republican party

-McGovern supporters

-Public opinion

-Public opinion

-Watergate

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Campaign issues

-McGovern’s proposals

-Colson’s recent memorandum to surrogates

-Vietnam War

-US surrender

-Abandonment of prisoners of war [POWs]

-Welfare

-Busing

-Tax increases

-Confidence issue

-Forthcoming release of financial analysis

-Total cost of proposals

-Albert E. Sindlinger

-Defense cuts

-Wilbur H. Mills’s statement

-Clairborne Pell

-New York Times

-Rhode Island

-John J. Rhodes

-Agnew’s statement

-Utica, New York

-Griffith’s Air Force Base

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-Agnew’s schedule

-Texas

-New York

-Arkansas

-Mills

-McGovern’s proposals

-Morality issue

-Effectiveness

-Watergate

-Awareness by Wisconsin farmers

-News summary

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Vietnam War

-Timing of possible settlement

-1972 Election

-Public relations

-McGovern, R. Sargent Shriver’s reaction to peace

Prospects

-McGovern’s previous statement

-Nguyen Van Thieu

-1972 peace plan compared with 1969 peace plan

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Campaign practices

-Demonstrators

-The President’s view

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Veterans Day message, October 25, 1972

-Wreath laying at Arlington National Cemetery

-News coverage

-Today show

-Radio

-Donald E. Johnson

-Frank L. Rizzo

-The President’s words

-Amnesty

-Public reaction to Vietnam War, McGovern

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Colson left at 1:24 pm.